Description: The Statutory Boundary feature class (dnr_stat_plan_areas_prk) visually represents the formal legal description of the management unit's boundary as defined in Minnesota Statutes, maintained and published by the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes (https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/statutes). This boundary does not in any way indicate that the State owns the land within the boundary or manages it. Quite often, the boundary includes parcels of privately owned land. We strongly urge all users of this data to display the Statutory Boundary polygons on maps by means of an outline rather than a solid fill to communicate that this is a statutory boundary only and not a boundary of State-owned or State-managed land.Data download and full metadata: https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/bdry-dnr-lrs-prk
Description: A polygon feature class delineated on and digitized from 1:24,000 U.S.G.S. quad maps of Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas (SNAs).Scientific and natural areas are established to protect and perpetuate in an undisturbed natural state those lands and waters embracing natural features of exceptional scientific and educational value. The SNA Program's goal is to ensure that no single rare feature is lost from any region of the state. This requires protection and management of each feature in sufficient quantity and distribution across the landscape. The Programs' Long Range Plan is to protect at least five locations of plant communities known to occur in each landscape region, and three locations per region of each rare species, plant or animal, and geologic feature. It is estimated that 500 natural areas are needed throughout the state to adequately protect significant features. Because over 40 percent of these rare features occur in prairies, 200 SNAs would be in the prairie area of the state. Of the remainder, approximately 135 are estimated to be needed in the deciduous and 165 in coniferous forest landscape communities in the next 100 years. Protection of multiple sites in each landscape region is a vital means of capturing the genetic diversity and preventing the loss of important species, communities, and features. This strategy observes the wisdom of not putting all our eggs in one basket.Data download and full metadata: https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/bdry-scientific-and-nat-areas
Description: This polygon theme contains boundaries for approximately 1392 Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) across the state of Minnesota covering nearly 1,288,000 acres. WMAs are part of the Minnesota state recreation system created to protect wildlife habitat and provide wildlife-based recreation.Data download and full metadata: https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/bdry-dnr-wildlife-mgmt-areas-pub
Description: The MRCCA is a land corridor along the Mississippi River in the seven-county metro area in which special land use regulations guide development activity. The corridor extends 72 miles along the Mississippi River from the cities of Ramsey and Dayton in the north to the City of Hastings and Ravenna Township in the south. It includes 54,000 acres of land along both sides of the river. The State of Minnesota created the corridor and land use regulations in 1976. Local governments administer the regulations through their local plans and zoning ordinances.The MRCCA is home to a full range of residential neighborhoods and parks, as well as river-related commerce, industry, and transportation. Though the MRCCA has been extensively developed, many intact and remnant natural areas remain, including bluffs, islands, floodplains, wetlands, riparian zones, and native aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna.Data download and full metadata: https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/bdry-mississippi-r-critical-area